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'Arivum Anbum': It's Kamal's way of speaking equality - What's behind the script?

By alagu, 23 April, 2020
India, Tamilnadu, Chennai, Coronavirus, Kamalhaasan

Music is one of the forces that unites the people, shares the pain, and sends solidarity to those who are endured with pain. Actor turned politician Kamal Haasan shares that pain and speaks for humanity and equality through the invisible force amid the lockdown imposed to contain the invisible enemy. 

Kamal Haasan and Music composer Ghibran have jointly produced a music video that was released on Thursday. Titled as 'Arivum Anbum', the video runs for about five minutes by featuring scores of well-known faces and displaying the migrant workers who have been levied with the burden in the wake of the lockdown.

The video is released by Think Music and features actors, singers, and music composers like Anirudh Ravichander, Shankar Mahadevan, Sid Sriram, Devi Sri Prasad, Shruti Haasan, Mugen Rao, Bombay Jayashree, Siddharth, Andrea Jeremiah, and Lydian Nadhaswaram and along with them, the video also features 37 chorus singers.

 

Kamal Haasan has written the lyrics while Ghibran composed the music. The lyrics have been crafted to exhibit the power of equality, humanity, and service and it revolves around displaying the visuals of thousands of migrant workers across the country who ought to get stranded after the government has imposed the lockdown suddenly by giving short time for the country to get settled down for the unprecedented experiment.

It powerfully orates how the workers have been treated in the country starting from showing the video of how the Uttar Pradesh government had sprayed disinfectant to the mass group of people in public to the workers crowded in the bus stations, walking on foot on the highways to reach their homes, which has been one of the toughest passages carried out by many, some have arrived at the destination and some have departed the world.

The song ends by showing the visuals of Lord Buddha, Thiruvallur, Periyar, Subramania Bharati, Gandhi, Ambedkar, and CN Annadurai and largely iterates that 'Love, humanity, and equality live forever'. This has been one of the platforms that Kamal Haasan has kept his voice against the sudden announcement of the lockdown.

Earlier, he had directly penned the open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which he criticized the government on imposing the nationwide lockdown without considering the lives of the poor and the actor has linked the decision to that of demonetization. He also criticized the center as a balcony government, referring to Modi's appeal to the people to clap hands and light candles on the balconies. On Wednesday, Kamal Haasan has released the lyrics of the song on his Twitter.

 

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